At Hillary Clinton’s (D) campaign web site:

“…Factcheckers: Please send inquiries to senior Trump strategist Corey Lewandowski at corey@cnn.com”

No matter what you enter in the Trump “Smart” Tax Calculator your federal taxes will be zero.

This afternoon, via Twitter, Senator Ed Emery (r) continues his requests for constituent concerns:

Ed Emery ‏@edemery

If you could prevent one piece of legislation from passing the Missouri Legislature this year, what would it be? Leave a comment below. 2:30 PM – 5 Jan 2015

The replies:

Grow More ‏@GrowingInMO

@edemery This questions seems backwards, don’t you think? What work will you actually do this year? 2:32 PM – 5 Jan 2015

Is that the people with the blimp?

Brian K ‏@Briligerent

@edemery Right to Work 2:32 PM – 5 Jan 2015

And a comment in passing:

Sean Nicholson ‏@ssnich

The psychic canine one RT @edemery: If you could prevent one piece of legislation from passing #MOLeg, what would it be? 2:31 PM – 5 Jan 2015

There’s a story in there somewhere.

Previously: Sen. Ed Emery (r): be careful what you ask for (January 5, 2014)

Yesterday Representative Vicky Hartzler (r) posted an image on Twitter of President Obama and an obviously unhappy baby with the caption “That awkward moment when you realize that your share of the dept is $55,260”:

Rep. Vicky Hartzler ‏@RepHartzler

This baby’s face says it all. [….] 7:02 AM – 22 Jul 2014

There were responses:

KCLiveMusicBlog ‏@KCLiveMusicBlog

@RepHartzler actually I think Obama just told him about the policies you supported. 7:12 AM – 22 Jul 2014

Mary Reed ‏@marsam22reed

@RepHartzler Return free dollars of FARM SUBSIDIES you received, to help bring down the debt. 9:58 AM – 22 Jul 2014

Ouch. Social media is always interesting.

So is this, from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:

Economic Downturn and Legacy of Bush Policies Continue to Drive Large Deficits

Economic Recovery Measures, Financial Rescues Have Only Temporary Impact

By Kathy Ruffing and Joel Friedman

Updated February 28, 2013

….Just two policies dating from the Bush Administration – tax cuts and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – accounted for over $500 billion of the deficit in 2009 and will account for nearly $6 trillion in deficits in 2009 through 2019 (including associated debt-service costs of $1.4 trillion).  By 2019, we estimate that these two policies will account for almost half – over $8 trillion – of the $17 trillion in debt that will be owed under current policies.[7]   (See Figure 2.)  These impacts easily dwarf the stimulus and financial rescues, which will account for less than $2 trillion (just over 10 percent) of the debt at that time.  Furthermore, unlike those temporary costs, these inherited policies do not fade away as the economy recovers.[8]

Without the economic downturn and the fiscal policies of the previous Administration, the budget would be roughly in balance in this decade.  Even if we regard the economic downturn as unavoidable, we would have entered it with a much smaller debt – allowing us to absorb the recession’s damage to the budget and the cost of economic recovery measures, while keeping debt comfortably below 50 percent of GDP, as Figure 2 suggests.  That would have put the nation on a much sounder footing to address the demographic challenges and the cost pressures in health care that darken the long-run fiscal outlook….

And that’s how we get there.

Representative Hartzler (r) should have posted a photo of former President George W. Bush with the unhappy baby.